I have been meaning to start a build thread, but I haven't really had the time. So here goes. I'll be posting and backdating previous mods and updates until I am caught up. Then, I hope to update the thread as I go.

First of all, I was heavily involved in the "stance" scene and my previous car was an Infiniti G35 Coupe with 20" Super Concave DPE wheels. Here it is...

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I loved the car. However, I started getting bored with the whole "hard-parking" scene and wanted to move on to something more fun. I contemplated gutting the G and making it a dedicated track car, but that chassis is too heavy and it takes more money than I would ever want to spend to make reliable power to move all that weight around. That being said, I parted all the mods out on the car and sold it.

I spent a couple months shopping around and finally came across my FD. My friends thought the car looked terrible due to what was already done to it. However, I knew I would be tearing it apart and making it my own.

Please excuse the Instagram quality photos since I was using it to document my build that way. Since I have since deleted that account, I will be using my DSLR to document my build

Here it is the day I bought it. 1994 Touring with some terrible gold pearl Toyota white paint.

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I already knew that I would be ditching the front and rear bumper for something less "drift" look. Those are both sitting in the back yard now collecting dust.

Of course I wanted to drive the car for a few days before I started the teardown, so I did! Low and behold, I started to find all the problems the previous owner failed(or chose not) to tell me.

I bought the car with an XSPower T66 kit and the turbo was burning oil. I also had a really bad oil pan leak.

Here is how the engine bay looked when I took it home. Notice the meth kit...that wasn't working...another thing the previous owner didn't tell me about.

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My initial plans were to clean up the car aesthetically and drive it until I wanted to go with more power. But, as I further inspected things on the car, I knew that I couldn't drive such a piece of ****.

As long as I can find some particular photos posted on facebook, I will post the bullshit I found along the way.

The very first thing I did was remove the Seibon Scoot replica hood and those hideous headlights. I didn't even bother putting them up for sale because I wouldn't want to contribute to uglifying such a beautiful car.

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To be continued....

 

I like where this is heading. I have always liked the pop-ups over any of the other stuff. congrats on the fd, i am Excited to see how this turns out.

 

Glad you decided to get rid of the Infiniti, if you plan on going to the track then the FD is a much better choice. Im also glad you got rid of those god awful headlights. Good luck with the build!

 

Thanks guys. I actually bought the car almost a year ago and I've been so busy having to travel for work and still taking a full load at school...I have just been spread thin.

I'll try to get the thread up to date ASAP since I would like to see others' opinions on my decisions of mods, purchases, etc.

 

Since the turbo was trash, I decided to upgrade. And that was actually my first purchase for the FD.

I knew that if I pulled the trigger on the turbo first, I would follow through with all of the supporting mods.

So after numerous conversations with Elliot over at Turblown, I ordered his ball bearing TD61 with the 1.06 A/R hot side and anti-surge cold side.

Don't judge my sexy face.

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I then picked up a set of OEM headlights from curacosfinest and have since decided to go a different route with lighting.

On to removing the motor. It was surprisingly easy. The day that I had the help to remove the motor, we couldn't get the PPF out for some reason, so we had to leave the transmission in for the time being.

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All those silly oil leaks from the turbo and oil pan left such a mess to clean up. Absolutely TERRIBLE.

 

The mods that were with the car when I bought it were as follows. I've kept some and sold, or trying to sell the others.

XSPower T66 kit...turbo is in the trash, intercooler is on an s13 now and manifold was sold to someone here on the forum.
Snow Performance stage 3 meth kit...not working, sold motor and reservoir.
Vortech bypass valve...why? I don't know. sitting in a box now.
Synapse 50mm wastegate....still using that.
Power FC...sold and moving on to Adaptronic.
Ebay aluminum radiator...gave it away.
RC injectors modded secondary injectors...sold.
Aeromotive FPR...keeping
Walbro 255...sold.
Shitty pep boys quality second oil cooler...sold.
Unknown air pump pulley delete kit...sitting on the a shelf.
Tein Super Drift coilovers...on the fence about keeping.
Tein EDFC...currently for sale
HKS Drager exhaust...sold.
Unknown 3" DP...keeping.
Relocated Optima yellowtop...keeping and re-relocating it to the bins.


I'm a little confused about how this guy invested in an almost $400 WG and $450 on a meth kit to only purchase ebay quality parts for the stuff that matters.

Once again further fueling my drive to tear everything down.

 

The wise and worthy know when to defect from the teenager stance scene to function. Congrats on making the right life choice, LOL

Good luck with your build.

 

Thanks. The teenage portion of the scene is what drove me away. I'm 30 years old and I couldn't stand the atmosphere that stance brings.

 

I have a scoote hood. You implying somethingggggggggggg?

 

Nooooo...

I just don't think you can pull a motor with the hood installed. lol

 

this gay thread is gay .... hurry up john!

 

Says the guy that has taken 4 years on his build...lol

 

What is going on in here?

 

cant wait to see the final product

 

them fighting words





but in all seriousness. getting a long very nicely

 

^not enough pics!!! =-)

 

More updates coming today

 

^sweet.

 

I ordered a set of Himini motor mounts since my stock ones were shot. (By the way, good luck when ordering anything from Himini. No communication and they take forever to ship.

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I also got a Banzai oil pan brace.

Don't mind the orientation of the pucks. I just hung them there.

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The difference in turbos.

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I couldn't pass up the deal I got on a brand new shallow corn Nardi so I picked that up as well.

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Aeromotive 340, Vibrant -6 hose and a plethora of fittings!

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Greddy Elbow.

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I then started working on the interior. Yanked the old carpet and went on the hunt for some black carpet.

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I cleaned up the engine bay and painted it matte black. I need to redo it, actually.

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are those the cloth oem seats? are you get different ones of stick wit those? and can't wait to see what you're gonna do. mine came with those same gay headlights and I just gave them away. haha

 

Yea those are cloth seats. The car had an eBay bucket in the driver seat and a terribly dyed passenger touring seat. I'll stick with the cloth seats for the time being. Trying to figure out what I can fit in that fits in the car still.

 

i think there is a forum on here that talks about that which seats fit best in the FD's. i ran across it one day... i'll have to look that up.

 

Yea I'm subscribed to that thread.

 

did you happen to find it? i tried searching for it with no luck? looking to replace my seats also